Poll: Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium - WoW's Worst Nightmare?
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No. It'll go the way of all the other contenders, because it won't do anything that WoW doesn't do already, and it will almost certainly do a hell of a lot less.
And the excuse will be "well WoW only did X when it launched", but you're not competing against WoW when it launched, you're competing against it now.
Until WoW starts running out of steam on it's own, none of the pretenders to it's throne are going to get a sniff of the same success.
And the excuse will be "well WoW only did X when it launched", but you're not competing against WoW when it launched, you're competing against it now.
Until WoW starts running out of steam on it's own, none of the pretenders to it's throne are going to get a sniff of the same success.
Keep in mind the success of WOW is also that is is made for hardware what 8 years old?
Almost any system can play it. You don't kill something that was made accessible by making pretty graphics. The game play, the ease of accessibility to systems, far more tests will tell...but yeah WOW is not going anywhere till Blizzard does to it what it did to d2 and that is kill their own creation.
Almost any system can play it. You don't kill something that was made accessible by making pretty graphics. The game play, the ease of accessibility to systems, far more tests will tell...but yeah WOW is not going anywhere till Blizzard does to it what it did to d2 and that is kill their own creation.
I think it is going to end up like a lot of mmo's that have tried to dethrone WoW. I don't think the game itself looks bad, but I have a feeling most people won't even be able to play it with a decent framerate (if they can even play it at all) since mmo's need to have a broad system requirement in order to get a decent player base; decent graphics can really make sure they don't fit the criteria. Plus, the game isn't going to be as polished as all of the WoW Kids expect it to be.
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on topic: it wont kill wow, the next 3 years of mmos will. between dc universe online, rift, guild wars 2, and star wars the old republic, not to mention all the completely free to play mmos, WoWs player base is going to be massively splintered. WoW like.... the declining tiger population. sure, its still alive, and likely going to be alive a while, but its nowhere near as strong as it once was, and its never going to grow above what it is now, it is only going to continue going downhill (player base wise)
edit: also, this seems to be the "golden age" of mmos. so many strong titles are coming out, however, since everyone and thier mother are making them and finding new ways to make money off of them MANY strong titles are goign to fall to the wayside as we enter a "dark age" i predict the current warhammer 40k mmo to die (or go f2p), wow will lose subscriptions, rift will die or go f2p, dc universe and city of heroes are going to canibalize thier users. eve online will lose subscribers, SW:ToR will be strong, guild wars will be strong (on the merit it doesnt have a subscription fee), and unfortunately warhammer 40k - the new one will go the way of the first warhammer mmo
on topic: it wont kill wow, the next 3 years of mmos will. between dc universe online, rift, guild wars 2, and star wars the old republic, not to mention all the completely free to play mmos, WoWs player base is going to be massively splintered. WoW like.... the declining tiger population. sure, its still alive, and likely going to be alive a while, but its nowhere near as strong as it once was, and its never going to grow above what it is now, it is only going to continue going downhill (player base wise)
edit: also, this seems to be the "golden age" of mmos. so many strong titles are coming out, however, since everyone and thier mother are making them and finding new ways to make money off of them MANY strong titles are goign to fall to the wayside as we enter a "dark age" i predict the current warhammer 40k mmo to die (or go f2p), wow will lose subscriptions, rift will die or go f2p, dc universe and city of heroes are going to canibalize thier users. eve online will lose subscribers, SW:ToR will be strong, guild wars will be strong (on the merit it doesnt have a subscription fee), and unfortunately warhammer 40k - the new one will go the way of the first warhammer mmo
As I have been saying, WoW will kill itself. Not another MMO. People will grow bored and tired of playing the same thing for years.
It may lure some people away.
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A lot of MMO's have been coming out though some in the future could hold the same question of will it kill WoW.
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Guild Wars 2 (Mainly cause its a Non-Subsctiption MMO)
It may lure some people away.
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A lot of MMO's have been coming out though some in the future could hold the same question of will it kill WoW.
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Guild Wars 2 (Mainly cause its a Non-Subsctiption MMO)
If i would believe i would pray to whatever that it wont kill wow.
If a great MMO like Warhammer would kill WOW, what would happen? All those annoying wowkids would stream to our beautiful servers.
If a great MMO like Warhammer would kill WOW, what would happen? All those annoying wowkids would stream to our beautiful servers.
*sigh* Everytime a new MMO is announced this kind of thread comes up, and every time the answer is always the same. NO! Esp. since you've pretty much admitted that it's essentially the same game just replace the Horde/Alliance with whatever the factions are in Warhammer 40K (not a Warhammer fan). Unless an MMO is doing something drastically different that WoW it's not going to be any serious threat to WoW. I said the same thing with this came up about Rift. You're not going to unseat WoW from the MMORPG throne with a WoW clone.
EDIT: And before anyone says anything, I don't even play WoW.
EDIT: And before anyone says anything, I don't even play WoW.
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I think you know what faction I want to be.
(I wonder how they are going to deal with Chaos no doubt they'll force them all to work together like in age of reckoning >.> or make them all chaos undivided ^^))
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I have to agree with you. I was initially excited for the game...until I read this on the official website:GreyKnight3445 said:
"Side with the forces of Order, or the vile hosts of Destruction, in a war that will unlock ancient secrets, reveal dark purposes, and determine the fate of the Sargos Sector."
Seriously? You're reducing it to a "good guys vs. bad guys" conflict? Come on people, this is Warhammer 40,000 we're talking about. One of the things I like about the universe is that every faction is oppressive in some form. Even the Tau (who were initially reviled by longtime fans for being too goody two-shoes) aren't really virtuous, they're simply the least despicable of them all.
Every major faction wages open war with one another without remorse or pity. While (very) temporary alliances have been made before, it's only in particularly grim circumstances where a common enemy becomes such a dire threat that it cannot be defeated by any one faction. Once the enemy is defeated and the status quo restored, everyone goes back to fighting everybody else again.
A multi-faction conflict would have been amazing, but they decided to rip off WoW's Horde vs. Alliance. Color me disappointed.
Between this and the old republic, maybe Wow would lose a few thousand customers, in the best possible circumstances. But there are 12 million WoW subscribers so, hardly their worst nightmare.
Kill WoW?: Don't make me laugh.
Be Awesome?: Well, it's still too early to say, but it definitely looks promising.
Be Awesome?: Well, it's still too early to say, but it definitely looks promising.
To be honest, I AM hoping to see a fracturing of the MMO player world.
Ideally I'd like to see the common man stay in WoW. I'd like to see the pretentious, mostly about innnovation, and also broke crowd head to GW2. I imagine that SWTOR would be good for newbie MMO players and kids, as a nice segue from solo RPGs to the big bad internet.
I think that Warhammer 40k will fall more into the niche market, like FF11 (or 14 was supposed to be), with a die hard core of fans and regular trickle of people coming in to see what the fuss is about.
And of course, Eve Online sitting there like it always has, smugly watching it's player based content be way more awesome than anything WoW has done.
Ideally I'd like to see the common man stay in WoW. I'd like to see the pretentious, mostly about innnovation, and also broke crowd head to GW2. I imagine that SWTOR would be good for newbie MMO players and kids, as a nice segue from solo RPGs to the big bad internet.
I think that Warhammer 40k will fall more into the niche market, like FF11 (or 14 was supposed to be), with a die hard core of fans and regular trickle of people coming in to see what the fuss is about.
And of course, Eve Online sitting there like it always has, smugly watching it's player based content be way more awesome than anything WoW has done.
It does look awesome and I will get it (can't wait to exterminate the lap-dogs of the corpse god) but I doubt anything short of a nuke will kill off WoW.
Yeah. They had this problem in Age of Reckoning. Dwarves and High Elves were on the same side. Orcs had allies. The Dark Elves weren't trying to stab everyone in the back. And then the Skaven joined both sides.Neverhoodian said:
See, an interesting idea would be to have rolling alliances. Instead of designing typical RedvsBlue style maps, have each faction with it's own corner, and monthly or weekly changes to the teams. You'd get a lot more use out of a single map that way, and tactics would alter on a regular basis, to keep things interesting.
Obviously some alliances would never work, and the Orks would just be on their own, killing everyone all the time. But let's be fair... no one plays orks for the seriousness anyway.
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